Andrew S. Grove, the former chief executive of Intel, has pledged $1.5 million so the University of California can start a joint master's degree program aimed at so-called translational medicine -- the process of turning biological discoveries into...

May 18, 2010, Tuesday

Andrew S. Grove, the 73-year-old former chief executive of Intel, has long brought a piercing intellect and a personal passion to the subject of health care. In 1996, Mr. Grove wrote a cover article for Fortune magazine, ''Taking On Prostate...